Gender and change in Hong Kong : globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese patriarchy
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Gender and change in Hong Kong : globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese patriarchy
（Contemporary Chinese studies）
UBC Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Gender and Change in Hong Kong analyzes women's changingidentities and agencies amidst the complex interaction of threeimportant forces, namely, globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinesepatriarchy. The chapters examine the issues from a number ofperspectives to consider legal changes, political participation, thesituation of working-class and professional women, sexuality, religion,and international migration.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: Gender and Change in Hong Kong / Eliza W.Y.Lee
2. Engendering a Legal System: The Unique Challenge of PostcolonialHong Kong / Carole J. Petersen
3. Women's Activism during Hong Kong's PoliticalTransition / Lisa Fischler
4. Individualism and Patriarchy: The Identity of EntrepreneurialWomen Lawyers in Hong Kong / Eliza W.Y. Lee
5. Withering Away of the Hong Kong Dream? Women Workers underIndustrial Restructuring / Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu and Ching-KwanLee
6. Discourse on Baau Yih Naai (Keeping Concubines): Questions ofCitizenship and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong / Ka-MingWu
7. Negotiating Gender Identity: Postcolonialism and Hong KongChristian Women / Wai-Ching Wong
8. Empowering Mobility: "Astronaut" Women in Australia /Siumi Maria Tam
9. Prospects for the Development of a Critical Feminist Discourse /Eliza W.Y. Lee
Notes on Contributors
Index
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